{"id":1319,"date":"2010-10-15T08:45:35","date_gmt":"2010-10-15T14:45:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asylumeclectica.com\/grim\/?p=1319"},"modified":"2016-01-03T00:23:54","modified_gmt":"2016-01-03T06:23:54","slug":"morbid-fact-du-jour-for-october-15-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/?p=1319","title":{"rendered":"Morbid Fact Du Jour For October 15, 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Today&#8217;s DIY Yet Truly Morbid Fact!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Officials are pondering whether to charge a Missouri DIY satellite TV installer who decided that the best way to punch a hole through the wall was with a .22 calibre handgun, and in so doing accidentally shot and killed his wife. Ronald Long was attempting to install said system in the bedroom of his family&#8217;s Deepwater home on March 22, 2008. After &#8220;several unsuccessful efforts to punch a hole through the exterior wall using other means&#8221; he popped two caps into the wall, unaware that his wife, Patsy, was outside the building. The second round hit her in the chest, and although she was &#8220;given CPR by neighbors and family until medics arrived&#8221;, she was later pronounced dead in hospital. Sheriff&#8217;s department spokesman Maj. Robert Hills explained: &#8220;He was under the impression that everybody was inside the residence, that he knew where everybody was at.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Culled from: KCTV5.Com<br \/>\nGenerously submitted by: Vickie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s DIY Yet Truly Morbid Fact! Officials are pondering whether to charge a Missouri DIY satellite TV installer who decided that the best way to punch a hole through the wall was with a .22 calibre handgun, and in so doing accidentally shot and killed his wife. Ronald Long was attempting to install said system [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-facts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1319"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6231,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1319\/revisions\/6231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}